[isoman2kx]

/* A test
*/

import java.util.Scanner;

public class WordInput
{
	public static void main( String [ ] args)
	{
	
	Scanner scan = new Scanner ( System.in );
	
	System.out.print ( "Enter a word >" );
	String word = scan.nextLine( );
	char character1 = word.charAt (1);
	char character2 = word.charAt (2);
	char character3 = word.charAt (3);
	char character4 = word.charAt (4);
	char character5 = word.charAt (5);
	char character6 = word.charAt (6);
	char character7 = word.charAt (7);
	char character8 = word.charAt (8);
	
System.out.println ( "Your word is (with spaces) " + word + " and " +character1 + " " + character2 + " " + character3);

}


}

The problem asks for the user to end a word (as a string) and then for your program to take that word and display it and then display the word with spaces between every character


like say you entered " longword" .... I need the program to format the string and say "l o n g w o r d "

I'm so frustrated. I've looked all over the damn internet for 2 hours for this problem

-Travis

oh and ignore the charat code above, i was just bs'ing to make myself feel better.

[markhazlett9]

isoman2kx, on 29 Oct, 2008 - 06:50 PM, said:

/* A test
*/

import java.util.Scanner;

public class WordInput
{
	public static void main( String [ ] args)
	{
	
	Scanner scan = new Scanner ( System.in );
	
	System.out.print ( "Enter a word >" );
	String word = scan.nextLine( );
	char character1 = word.charAt (1);
	char character2 = word.charAt (2);
	char character3 = word.charAt (3);
	char character4 = word.charAt (4);
	char character5 = word.charAt (5);
	char character6 = word.charAt (6);
	char character7 = word.charAt (7);
	char character8 = word.charAt (8);
	
System.out.println ( "Your word is (with spaces) " + word + " and " +character1 + " " + character2 + " " + character3);

}


}

The problem asks for the user to end a word (as a string) and then for your program to take that word and display it and then display the word with spaces between every character


like say you entered " longword" .... I need the program to format the string and say "l o n g w o r d "

I'm so frustrated. I've looked all over the damn internet for 2 hours for this problem

-Travis

You're close. If you want to do it like you are then try...

System.out.print(Character1 + " " + Character2 + " " + Character3 + " " + Character4 + " " + Character5 + " " and so on for how many letters you want)

This will only work for words that are 8 letters or less. if you want it for words that are more I suggest using a for loop to do that. cheers

[isoman2kx]

You're close. If you want to do it like you are then try...

System.out.print(Character1 + " " + Character2 + " " + Character3 + " " + Character4 + " " + Character5 + " " and so on for how many letters you want)

This will only work for words that are 8 letters or less. if you want it for words that are more I suggest using a for loop to do that. cheers
[/quote]



could you please please please point me in the right direction ?

I need it for any length of a string actually. I was just putting in the charAt's to see if it was possible at all.

what I actually need is for whatever length of the word that the user enters and that the scanner class scans for my string input, i need to format that length of a word to include spaces between each of it's characters...

[markhazlett9]

do you happen to know how to use arrays?

[isoman2kx]

we haven't used arrays yet in our class. it's a relatively beginner java level class.

we have used loops though, if that helps?

[pbl]

import java.util.Scanner;

public class WordInput
{
	public static void main( String [ ] args)
	{
	
		Scanner scan = new Scanner ( System.in );
		System.out.print ( "Enter a word >" );
		String word = scan.nextLine( );
		char[] digit = word.toCharArray();	// convert String into an array of char
		for(int i = 0; i < digit.length; i++)
		   System.out.print(" " + digit[i]);
		System.out.println();
	  }
}

[markhazlett9]

isoman2kx, on 29 Oct, 2008 - 07:47 PM, said:

we haven't used arrays yet in our class. it's a relatively beginner java level class.

we have used loops though, if that helps?

Ya loops are good for certain things however you can't do everything with them. Because you don't know how many variables you are going to need(due to the fact you don't know how long the world will be), then you will not be able to make enough variables to hold all the characters in a potentially long string.

Think of it like this... if the user enters....

"dfkfjdaslkfjdldfkljkadlshfkjsadhflkhadsjfklhaskjdfhlksdhflkahsdjfklhdajslfhjdaslhfjdasklhfjklasdhfjklhsdfjklhdskajf"

as his string then you will need to manually create a variable for each letter. You can do this if you want however it will be extremely time consuming and the next time it's run if the user enters a string that is larger then you will need even more. So without arrays there in my knowledge is no way to do it like the way you are requiring.